AMAZING!!!

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AMAZING!

How funny...

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Note to all

Hi all, 

I just wanted to say Thank you for a great class it has been wonderful. 

When I finish the crazyness that is finals I will work on typing up your notes and sending them out. It might take me a bit of time so bare with me. 

Hope you all have a wonderful break. get lots of rest you deserve it and of course make some fantastic photographs! 

Note to all

Hi everyone,

A quick few things to keep in mind for all of you, know who your work is in dialog with and know how your work is relevant to what is going on currently in the art world. 

Use you artist statement as a cheat sheet for yourself, write any notes you might need on it. 

Control your crit, these are your 15 minutes to get whatever you want out it of so don't be afraid to politely redirect the conversation. 

You have all done really wonderful work and I thought that our mock jury went really well on Tuesday. Be excited you've already done the hard part and you know all your work really well you are ready for this. 

I'm at work on Friday from 8 - 12 and can get there a little early if anyone needs/ wants to chat about sequence or anything. Also I saw on facebook that some folks are getting together for a student crit. you should go if you can it looks like it could be great! 

Good luck with finals! 

Katie O

I would consider during the crit turning either the volume down or the video off - because it's cuteness is has potential to be a little distracting. 

Here are some things that came up during class: 

1) Are you controlling time? 

2) Why include the real and fake real? 

3) How does yours and your families engagement with this project differ from everyone else? 

4) What role is the installation playing in this work?

5) Is there truth in this project? Or is there no truth? in each case how does that function for the work?

6) In 10 years how would this project be different? 

7) After looking at and interacting with this work what will I know that I didn't before?

8) How is a families compulsion to make photos and videos that may never be viewed factor in to this project/ how is that something that you are in dialog with?

9) Why is this work important? (do NOT say, maybe it's not, even if that's what you think)

10) Do you want us to understand that it is important to not overlook out childhood memories? 

11) Why did you not create new photographs?

12) Where does your work go from here? 

13) Who is your work in dialog with?

14) What is the most successful part of this to you? What would you do differently if you had more time? 

Molly

We talked a little bit about the "quality of life" phrase in your artist statement consider changing those words to something like renegotiation. Or just keep re arranging and see what fits best to you. You also might want to put in something about how you found these families, that there are three of them and that you visited them all multiple times. Consider doing a little statistical research and having it on hand about how many young moms ect... 

Here are questions that came up in class:

1) Have you shown these parents as bad parents?

2) How didi you find these families and how many of them are there represented?

- i thought what you said about it being important to them as well as you was great! 

3) Why did you choose to show the indifference (parent and child alike)?

- why these moments

4) Is this documentary? / what is documentary and are you engaging it? 

5) What were you assumptions going into this project and how have those affected the result? 

6) Is there a media influence in this work?

7) Objective vs. subjective? 

8) Are we just stupid? Have we been romanticising parenthood when no matter what age the mother it is hard and tiring? 

9) Whose work is your work in dialog with?